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Flugfelag Islands (Icelandair) have two F.27s in service
East-West Airlines Ltd was founded in 1947 toprovide feeder services between inland districts,
Brisbane and Sydney. The airline now links35 centres in New South Wales and southern
Queensland with Sydney and Brisbane.The original fleet of Ansons and Hudsons
were gradually supplemented and eventuallysuperceded by the present-day fleet of DC-3s
and F-27s. The DC-3s are now used only forspecial flights, tours and charters. East-West
now operates scheduled services to 35 pointsin New South Wales and Queensland. The
Special Projects Division of the Company hasbeen in operation on cloud research and rain-
making experiments since March 1959throughout Australia. One of the DC-3s is on
long-term charter to the New South WalesDepartment of Lands for aerial surveying.
Head Office: PO Box 249, Tamworth, NSW,Australia.
Executives: D. M. Shand, chairman; J. G.Riley, general manager; R. O. Cooksey,
administration manager; J. S. Bolton,engineering manager; R. W. Walesby, manager
flight operations; N. V. Buchanan, salesmanager; R. F. Heppell, supply manager.
Employees: 294.
Fleet: four F-27, three DC-3. On order: oneF-27.
Ecuatoriana—see Compania Ecuatoriana deAviation SA.
Edde Airlines Inc is a supplemental US carrier.
Head Office: 2850 E. Wardlow Road, LongBeach, California, USA.
Executive: Joseph Edde, president.Fleet: one Constellation, one DC-3, one
Martin 202.
El Al Israel Airlines was incorporated inNovember 1948 and began service to European
cities, including London, in 1949. Routes tothe USA and South Africa were opened in
1951. The Government of Israel has themajority holding in El Al; the shipping
company Zim Israel Navigation Co, theJewish Agency and Federation of Labour also
have a financial interest. El Al has a share inArkia, Israel's domestic carrier. Boeing 72OBs
operate a once-weekly Tel Aviv-Teheran-Nairobi-Johannesburg service. Boeing 707s,
72OBs link Tel Aviv with New York viaAthens, Rome, Paris and London. Zurich,
Vienna, Munich, Frankfurt, Amsterdam andBrussels are also linked to Tel Aviv and
Nicosia, Istanbul and Teheran are served. Jetoperations were started in January 1961 with
a Boeing 707-441 leased from Varig. El Al'sown 707s and 72OBs were delivered in the
summer of 1961.
Head Office: Lod Airport (PO Box 41), TelAv'v, Israel.
rw<!MVW: Brig Gen E- Ber»-Arzi, chairman;VOL Milomo Lahat, president. Vice-presidents:
">• Hen-Ari, commercial; Louis Pedretti,lomics; B. Davidai, operations.
'loyees: 2,804.
f'e5^wo Boeing 720-058B, three 707-458,
-" 'O7-358B. On option: two Boeing SSTs.
Eldorado Aviation Ltd provides air transportw its p
arent company, Eldorado Mining andNorth8 Ltd and the latters subsidiary,
are haf^ rransPortation Co Ltd. Operationsoased at Edmonton.
Head Office: Industrial Airport, Port Hope,Ontario, Canada.
Executives: H. E. Lake, president; G. F.
Frank, general manager.
Employees: 34.Fleet: one DC-4, two DC-3, three Bell 47G-2,
one Sikorsky S-55.
Elivie— see Societa Italiana Esercizio Elicotteri.
Emerald Airways Ltd was formed in January1965 to operate scheduled passenger and freight
services between Belfast and various points inNorthern Ireland, Eire and Scotland. On
October 26, 1965, services were inauguratedon the Belfast-Shannon and Belfast-Prestwick
routes using DH Herons. In December 1966Hibernian Airlines of Dublin acquired a
controlling (55%) interest in Emerald andprovided a DC-3 for use during the coming
season on Emerald services between Glasgowand Eglinton (thrice-daily) and Belfast
(Aldergrove) and Prestwick (twice-daily).Head Office: Belfast Airport, Northern
Ireland.Executives: W. Scott, chairman; Capt D. C.
Pascall, operations director; Capt R. A.Gardiner, chief pilot.
Employees: 20.Fleet: one DC-3, one Heron.
Empire Airways—see Clinton Air Charter.
Empire State Airlines Inc operate scheduledcommuter air services on the routes Syracuse-
Ithaca-Elmira-New York City and Ithaca-
Elmira-Washington.Head Office: Hancock Airport, Syracuse, New
York, USA.Executive: T. R. Carpenter Jr, president.
Fleet: one Dumod Infinite 11, one Lear Jet23, two Beech 18, two Aero Commander.
Empresa Consolidada Cubana de Aviacion,which started operations on June 27, 1961, is
the successor to Compania Cubana de Avia-cion SA, which was founded in 1929 as
Compania Nacional Cubana de AviacionCurtiss SA, for the operation of a school and
charter services. Scheduled services were begunin 1930. Pan American obtained 100% control
of the company in 1932. PAA's holding wassubsequently much reduced. The present name
was adopted in 1959, as the company becamean entirely Cuban enterprise with a State
investment of 80%, since raised to 100%.Cubana operates a network of domestic
services and over international routes toPrague. Madrid and points in Central America.
Head Office: 23e Infanta, Vedado, Havana,Cuba.
Executives: Orlando Gonzalez, general mana-ger; Isabel Santana, finance manager;
Georgina Cordero, sales manager; RolandoBarros, operations manager; Candido Barros,
maintenance manager.Employees: 1,955.
Fleet: three Britannia 318, two Ilyushin 11-18,one DC-4, one Antonov An-12, six An-24,
three C-46, three DC-3, eight 11-14.
Empresa de Ayiacion Ando-Oriente SA of Peru
ceased operations during 1965.
Empresa Transportes Aereos Norte do BrasilSA (Aeronorte) began operations in 1950 and
flies a network of feeder services in north-eastBrazil. Percival Prince aircraft were used
originally, but present schedules are flown byDC-3s. In 1953 REAL acquired control of the
company but Aeronorte continues its opera-tions as a separate division.
Head Office: Sao Luiz, Brazil.Fleet: three DC-3.
Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense(Varig) was founded in 1927, with the technical
assistance of the German Condor Syndicate,for the operation of local services. Vang has
since absorbed several other airlines includingthe domestic operator Aerea Geral (1951),
the REAL consortium (1961) and Panair doBrasil's equipment and international routes in
1965. Capital majority is held by the Founda-tion of Employees (51 %) and executives (35 %).
An extensive network of routes are operatedthroughout South and Central America, and
to the USA, Europe, Africa and Asia; plansfor a round-the-world service are in hand.
Head Office: Edificio Vang, Aeroporto SantosDumont, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Executives: Erik de Carvalho, president;Harry Schuetz, vice-president; Oscar Siebel,
vice-president; Alexander Gate, traffic andsales director.
Employees: 10,335.
Fleet: three Boeing 707-341C, two 707-441,two Convair 990A, one DC-8, five Electra, nine
L-1049G/H, five DC-6B, 11 Convair 240,41 DC-3, 22 C-46. On order: ten HS.748.
Empresa Guatemalteca de Aviacion SA(Aviateca) was founded by the Guatemala
Government in 1945 to take over Aerovias deGuatemala, which had been founded in 1939,
and which began operating in 1940. The com-pany operates from Guatemala City to points
in Guatemala and also to Miami, New Orleansand Tapachula (Mexico).
Head Office: Avenida Hincopie, AeropuertoLa Aurora, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Executives: Maj Gustavo A. Giron, president;Col Enrique-Valladares Morris, vice-president/
operations manager; Maj Rene Sarmiento,asst operations manager.
Employees: 300.
Fleet:'four DC-6/6B, one DC-4, two C-46,four DC-3.
Empresa SA Viacao Aerea Guacha (SAVAG)
has been absorbed completely by Cruziero.
Escadrille Mercure, also known as TaxisAeriens Mercure, began operations in 1946
and now operates taxi and charter servicesfrom Le Bourget, Nice, Marseilles and Algiers.
Head Office: 3 Rue St-Philippe du Roule,Paris 8e, France.
Employees: 70.
Fleet: two Aero Commander, seven Beech 18,one Lockheed 12A, two SFERMA Marquis,
five Broussard.
Ethiopian Airlines SC was formed by Imperialproclamation on December 30, 1945, to
operate domestic and international services.International services were started on April 8,
1946. Concurrent with the formation of theairline in 1945, a management assistance
contract was signed with Trans World Airlines.The contract has since been modified but
remains in effect. Present operations include